Sojourner

We encourage "close" communion, but it's hardly ever mentioned and we don't go around asking people if they are saved and a member in good standing of a Bible-believing church. So really, in practice, I'd say we're more "open" communion. I would prefer that it be mentioned before each communion time that we practice "close" communion, tho.

Just for the record, yes, I usually do reuse my tea bags. I don't like my tea real strong, so there's usually still plenty of whatever left for another cup. Or I'll combine two used ones.

With the price of gas going up, the cost of food going up because of the prices of gas going up, if it keeps on going up in the next couple of years as it has in the last few months, many of us just might have to get much more thrifty than using tea bags over and over again and again.

For real!

Hi' date=' my name is Anne and I live on the ever-crazy, fast-paced Eastern Coast ~ Pennsylvania to be specific :smile .[/quote']
I never really thought of PA as being on a "coast", since I live in PA and it's over 300 miles to the nearest ocean....haha. And my part of PA is not at all "fast-paced"......crazy, maybe. It is a big state, tho. :smile

Welcome, Anne!

Of course I use them more than once. I figure I drink tea three times daily. So I spend approximately 5.00 per month for tea bags. If I were to use a separate bag for each cup I would spend about $15.00 a month. By reusing bags I save myself $120.00 a year by reusing my tea bags.

No one is 70+ yet :Bleh

I had just come out of church a few weeks ago and looked up just in time to see the space station passing over. I've seen it plenty of times before, but only because I had looked the times up online and knew when and where to look. So it was kinda cool to just look up and catch it at random.

:goodpost: Couldn't have said it better, pastorj.

This time of year it has to be wild leeks (ramps)!!

I recently received an ad in the mail from Direct TV and in the ad it stated that local channels came free with Direct TV.

It seems in the last few years there have been several who have changed the teachings of what hell is going to be.

Do you suppose its deliberate and they think they can get gains from taking this path?

Or Satan has hid the truth from them?

Or they are babes in Christ and just have not rightly divided the word of truth?

Maybe their lost and can't understand the truth.

No changes needed...... we have DirecTv.....already digital.

I've bought/sold over 100 items on Ebay and only once ever had someone return an item....a baseball card they didn't think was worth what they paid. I've always been happy with the things I've purchased on there, tho. I make sure I don't buy from people with poor feedback ratings.

We're too rural for Craig's List, so I usually go with Ebay.....or the local papers, radio, etc....

It looks like Rhubarb. :Green

One of my favorite signs of Spring.........can you identify this? (photo taken yesterday)
(I predict that PE will guess it first.)

I wanted to know what Jerry meant because he mentioned it several times and I have no idea what it is.

But yes, you can share yours too.

What Psalms 18 may be referring to (I'm not positive) is Historic Baptist doctrine, which might be a bit different from what Jerry gave. I think Historic Baptists usually tend to be Calvinistic in their doctrine. This quote from Spurgeon kind of sums up where they stand.....

"We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others; nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the consciences of others under the control of man..."

We had a low of 23 this morning, but made it up to 68 this afternoon.....just beautiful!

We had a family with 6 kids in our church a few years ago.......taught Sunday School, etc....now they are involved in Wicca and all kinds of other junk. It was really sad. And they still live right next door to our church.

Yes, I think Spring just might be here........and I think our ski season is about over here, too......

Especially if you've had some strong marinades which could leave behind a permanent smell.

It's that Global Warming just burning us to a crisp!

Since our church has a meal every Sunday we are having ham dinner and the folks just need to bring side dishes this week. I'm baking a pumpkin pie and candied yams.

Sojourner, That makes me thankful I live down here in Southwest Arkansas. Not trying to rub it on, thats for sure, but tomorrow is suppose to be even warmer.

But I feel sure in the summer you don't have near as much hot humid weather as we do.